Retail and wholesale industries

Fully revised and updated to reflect current trends and emerging topics, the fourth edition of Conferences and Conventions: A Global Industry provides an expert-led, comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the key elements of the global conference, convention and meetings industry.

Events from a mobilities perspective attend to moments in which individual networks coalesce in place but are not isolated in their performance as they often foster far-reaching and mobile networks of community.

The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses contains one of the most comprehensive listings and descriptions of Egyptian deities.

The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation.

Merchandising: Theory, Principles, and Practice, 3rd Edition, focuses on the process of merchandising and the principles applied to the planning, development, and presentation of product lines in both the manufacturing and retailing sectors.

This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains.

Visitors to Thailand's urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products.

This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing.

This book looks at the drivers in the emergence, development and internal and global expansion of Asian e-commerce businesses.

Visitor attractions represent a complex sector of the tourism industry and are the catalytic focus for the development of tourism infrastructure and services.

Basing shopper marketing strategy on customer insights is what differentiates market leading retail brands from weaker competitors.

This comprehensive book focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming travel and tourism, globally.

A non-technical guide to leveraging retail analytics for personal and competitive advantage Style & Statistics is a real-world guide to analytics in retail.

Volunteers make important contributions across the spectrum of event settings, most visibly at high profile mega events such as the Olympic Games they are volunteers are lauded as 'Games makers', 'unsung heroes' and the like.

Taking a leap and making the choice to start a business can be hard, but all that comes afterthe planning, loans, marketingcan be even harder.

This work combines a study of contemporary issues in tourism development with a close examination of approaches to tourism research.

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks and highlights the challenges and solutions with using Big Data for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability in the field of digital transformation and tourism.

This book brings together cutting edge research and applications of social media and related technologies, their uses by consumers and businesses in travel, tourism and hospitality.

Retailing is an ever-changing facet in the fashion industry.

This vital volume clearly explains cutting-edge theories and views on strategic management in applied management fundamentals in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Concise and thoroughly detailed Managing Sport and Leisure Facilities is a clean operating guide to leisure management by contract, providing expert advice for both contractor and client.

Tourism has increasingly become a vital element in the economic development of the Indian Ocean region.

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata.

Das Buch analysiert die zentrale Rolle des Medien-, Telekommunikations- und IT-Sektors als Antriebsfaktoren auf dem Weg in eine digitale Wirtschaft: der Internet-Ökonomie.

How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible encounters?

In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices.

Die angewandte Handelspsychologie ergänzt die Erkenntnisse des modernen Handelsmarketings um relevante psychologische Aspekte aus dem Bereich des Konsumentenverhaltens im Rahmen der betrieblichen Sortiments-, Ladengestaltungs-, Präsentations-, Service- und Kommunikationspolitik.

Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites explores how the terrible legacy of Nazi criminality is experienced by tourists, bridging the gap between cultural criminology and tourism studies to make a significant contribution to our understanding of how Nazi criminality is evoked and invoked in the landscape of modern Germany.

Companies and policy makers are prioritizing environmental, social, and governance goals as part of their strategies.

Originally published in 1982.

This book offers students an accessible and applied introduction to microeconomics in tourism and hospitality through a comprehensive analysis of the market mechanism, demand and supply, firm behavior and strategy, and transaction and institution.

First Published in 1990.

Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs refer to the UN stipulated road-map for development in 17 defined areas, by 2030.

Dieses Buch greift die drei wichtigsten Aspekte der Marktveränderung im Handel auf: Markt und Kunde, neue Geschäftsideen und Geschäftsmodelle sowie Geschäftssysteme und Businessschnittstellen.

This book responds to the need to investigate the complex links between sex and leisure and their implications for research and practice.

The imagination has long been associated with travel and tourism; from the seventeenth century when the showman and his peepshow box would take the village crowd to places, cities and lands through the power of stories, to today when we rely on a different range of boxes to whisk us away on our imaginative travels: the television, the cinema and the computer.

Wine tourism is a rapidly growing field of industry and academic interest with changes in the consumer markets in recent years, showing an enormous interest in 'experiential' travel.

Sell on Amazon and Make Them Do the Heavy Lifting Selling on Amazon has become one of the most popular ways to earn income online.

This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America's earliest engagements with race.

It is now widely agreed that the climate is changing, global resources are diminishing and biodiversity is suffering.

'Empowerment: HR strategies for service excellence' shows managers and students the importance of empowerment as part of human resource strategy.

Welcome to the second volume of the Kluwer International Series on ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SECURITY.

This book brings together, explores and expands socio-spatial affect, emotion and psychoanalytic drives in tourism for the first time.

This book presents critical insights and contemporary perspectives for exploring current trends, concerns and prospects of events tourism.

Global Supply Chain Security and Management: Appraising Programs, Preventing Crimes examines the relationship between securing a supply chain and promoting more efficient worldwide trade.

This volume explores the process of heritage making and its relation to the production of touristic places, examining several case studies around the world.